Homework: Advocacy Action Plan/LOP
In this course, you submitted to your Instructor your advocacy action plan topic and your rationale for your selection. You will now develop your approved topic into an Advocacy Action Plan.
You're Learning Outcomes Project: Advocacy Action Plan. You will develop different parts of your plan and gather feedback from your colleagues via Discussion.
Advocacy Topic Overview and Rationale
Effective advocacy requires communicating your advocacy topic and providing a compelling rationale, based on current data and research, for why the topic you have selected is an important topic within the field of early childhood education. To develop your plan, be sure to include responses to each of the following:
1) What is the issue/problem/topic? Include a description as well as how organizations currently advocate for this topic.
2) What regulations and policies are associated with the selected topic?
3) What ethical factors shape your understanding of this advocacy topic?
4) What policies exist that inform your advocacy topic? How are they written? What are the processes for changing policy?
5) What stakeholders influenced and are influenced by your selected topic?
6) What organizations are connected to advocacy efforts supporting your topic? For these organizations, describe the following:
a) What are the current funding sources and what are potential funding sources?
b) How does data inform current actions?
c) Who are the target audiences?
d) What advocacy messages are being delivered, and to whom?
e) What kinds of resources, including money, are necessary to put something into place?
7) In terms of advocacy goals, what overall goals would be reasonable in 6 months, 2 years, and 5 years (across range goals and interim steps)?
8) How will success of the advocacy efforts in terms of equity, ethics, and social justice be monitored and evaluated?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.